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Flock

Flock Meaning & Definition
Flock Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Flock?

[n] a group of birds
[n] a group of sheep or goats
[n] a church congregation guided by a pastor
[n] an orderly crowd; "a troop of children"
[n] (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty"
[v] come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer"
[v] move as a crowd or in a group; "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Flock: batch | clump | cluster | constellate | deal | good deal | great deal | hatful | heap | lot | mass | mess | mickle | mint | muckle | peck | pile | plenty | pot | quite a little | raft | sight | slew | spate | stack | tidy sum | troop | wad | whole lot | whole slew

Related Terms | Find terms related to Flock: a mass of | a world of | army | assemble | assembly | band | band together | bang | bangs | bevy | body | brethren | bunch | charm | chip | churchgoers | class | cloud | cluster | clutter | cohue | collect | collection | colony | come together | company | congregate | congregation | convoy | covey | crowd | crush | dandruff | deluge | drift | drive | drove | fetlock | flake | fleck | fleet | flight | floccule | flocculus | flocks | flood | fold | forelock | fringe | gaggle | galaxy | gam | gang | gather | gathering | go | go together | group | hail | heap | herd | herd together | hive | horde | host | jam | kennel | laity | large amount | laymen | legion | litter | lots | many | mass | masses of | meet | minyan | mob | muchness | multitude | murmuration | nest | nonclerics | nonordained persons | number | numbers | pack | panoply | paring | parish | parishioners | people | plague | plurality | pod | pour | press | pride | quantities | quantity | quiff | quite a few | rabble | rout | ruck | scale | school | scores | scurf | seculars | set | shaving | sheep | shoal | skein | skulk | sloth | society | spate | spring | swarm | throng | tidy sum | trip | troop | troupe | tuft | watch | worlds of

See Also | animal group | bevy | bird | bunch | bunch together | bunch up | collect | congregate | congregation | covert | covey | crowd | deluge | exaltation | faithful | flight | flood | fold | gaggle | gather | go | huddle | huddle together | inundation | large indefinite amount | large indefinite quantity | locomote | move | sheep | torrent | travel | wisp

Flock In Webster's Dictionary

\Flock\, n. [AS. flocc flock, company; akin to Icel. flokkr crowd, Sw. flock, Dan. flok; prob. orig. used of flows, and akin to E. fly. See {Fly}.] 1. A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl. --Milton. The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. --2 Macc. xiv. 14. 2. A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge. As half amazed, half frighted all his flock. --Tennyson.
\Flock\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flocked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flocking}.] To gather in companies or crowds. Friends daily flock. --Dryden. {Flocking fowl} (Zo["o]l.), the greater scaup duck.
\Flock\, v. t. To flock to; to crowd. [Obs.] Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so. --Taylor (1609).
\Flock\, n. [OE. flokke; cf. D. vlok, G. flocke, OHG. floccho, Icel. fl[=o]ki, perh. akin to E. flicker, flacker, or cf. L. floccus, F. floc.] 1. A lock of wool or hair. I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point [pommel]. --Shak. 2. Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. or pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture. 3. Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose. {Flock bed}, a bed filled with flocks or locks of coarse wool, or pieces of cloth cut up fine. ``Once a flock bed, but repaired with straw.'' --Pope. {Flock paper}, paper coated with flock fixed with glue or size.
\Flock\, v. t. To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock.

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